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Michael Almereyda (written by)
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When an unhappy young woman disappears, her worried sister desperately searches the internet for a clue to her missing sibling's whereabouts. | add synopsis
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Mighty Movie Podcast: These Moments in Time: Michael Almereyda on Paradise
(From Huffington Post. 23 September 2009, 1:29 PM, PDT)
(From Huffington Post. 23 September 2009, 1:29 PM, PDT)
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ideas? direction? purpose? not here...
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Karl Geary | ... | Eddie Mars / Tom |
 | Shalom Harlow | ... | Muriel |
 | Clarence Williams III | ... | Bill |
 | Ally Sheedy | ... | Lois |
| Josephine Martin | ... | Josephine |
 | Gloria Reuben | ... | Hannah |
 | Liane Balaban | ... | Amelia |
 | David Arquette | ... | Eddie |
 | Isabel Gillies | ... | Isabel |
| Quintron | ... | Quintron |
| Nic Ratner | ... | Peter |
| John Sinclair | ... | Himself |
| Ernie K-Doe | ... | Himself |
| Antoinette K-Doe | ... | Herself |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Larry Fessenden | ... | Clifton |
| Kyle Jason Louque | ... | Police Officer |
 | Chad Rose | ... | Fire captain |
 | Billy Slaughter | ... | Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Rated R for some language.
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Now let me clarify that I love art films. I love abstract ideas. I love seeing and hearing things on screen that make me go,"Wha????, and then go "oohhhh...i get it." But this is no Godard. This film, well, I just don't know. Is it in art film? Is it an excuse to display the gritty, third-world beauty of New Orleans, and the array of characters that lie within? Or is it a low-budget independent film that juggles from one concept to the other, never bothering to connect the dots because, well hell, there wasn't really a solid script in the first place, and never a real purpose to the story(how's that for a run-on sentence)? i guess my problem with this film is that, though it may have been low-budget, they still spent a a good deal on its production and actors, but didn't bother making an actual story with what they had. I was intrigued by the film and the ideas it was portraying. And if the whole film would have been as beautifully-abstract as the final dream sequence, or even the beginning (the music score, by David Julyan is great!), I would have wept--in a good way--like a child. I saw this at the New Orleans film fest in a packed house of audience members happy enough to see people and places they recognized: Ernie K. Doe, Bud's Broiler, etc. But perhaps they loved it...who knows?
The ideas, talent, and potential are there for a good film. But as a whole, the film makes you go, "hmmmmm....interesting....NEXT PLEASE!"